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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2011
Measurements by photoemission spectroscopy have shown that the chemical environments of alkaline earth cations in HTSC compounds are different from the environments of these ions in the prototype perovskite structures. A recently discovered HTSC compound (Pb2Sr2Ca0.5Y0.5Cu3O8) exhibits the exceptional feature of having a typical HTSC signature for Sr, while Ca shows a perovskite-like signature. The crystal-chemical features of the relevant compounds have been correlated with these observations. These correlations may be indicative of inter-layer electronic interactions.